As the PM was bundled into a vehicle, just one mile away at Kensington Town Hall protesters stormed the building to demand justice as anger mounts over the disaster. The blaze ripped through the building early Wednesday, trapping many residents in their homes.
London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton said they still did not know the cause of the fire, where it started or why it spread in such a way.
The death toll in the horrific fire that engulfed a 24-storey tower in west London rose to 30 today amid fears that it could climb to over 100 in one of the worst fire tragedies in the country.
Two nearby Underground subway lines were partially shut down Saturday in the fire area to make sure that debris from the tower did not land on the tracks. The Police has announced that the fifty-eight people who are still missing after the Grenfell Tower fire, are being presumed dead.
As the protesters sought to gain entry to an upper floor, police tried to bar their way.
The man said: "Why are Sadiq Khan and Corbyn coming down here to speak to people and Theresa May is coming here with police, walking around, not meeting no one, not meeting families?"
It issued a statement before the protest to try to address the concerns of residents. We know that there are still bodies of those who died inside the building and we want to return those people to their families as soon as we possibly can.
Protesters also say they're anxious about how and where victims will be rehoused.
But the visits, which took place more than 48 hours after the devastating fire broke out, have done little to quell the growing anger over the way Mrs May has dealt with the tragedy. "Just tell them!" said local resident Karen Brown, 36.
In an interview with the BBC late Friday, May insisted she was "deeply affected" by the "horrifying" stories of survivors, and repeated that she was determined to help. Her government, already weakened after losing its parliamentary majority in elections last week, has been slammed for a faltering response.
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Earlier this week she was criticised for not meeting members of the public when she visited Grenfell Tower in the aftermath of the disaster.
He said: "I thought the way they expressed themselves with a mixture of passion and reason was fantastic, and I hope it's the beginning of a process, not the end of a process, the beginning of a process of real listening between Government, RBKC (the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea council), local residents, that will bring about lasting change". "They have been left with nothing - no bank cards, no money, no means of caring for their children or relatives". Many chased after her armored cars, prompting the police to intervene and push people back.
She has promised those left homeless by the blaze would be rehoused locally within weeks, and the 5 million pound fund would pay for emergency supplies, food, clothes and other costs.
"It is hard to escape a very sombre national mood", she said in a message marking the event.
Like many other residents she has spent the days following the fire living in temporary shelters with minimal sleep, printing and distributing posters wherever she can.
The council said: 'We plan to house residents of Grenfell Tower as locally as we can.
"Everything possible will be done to help them", the prime minister said of the victims in a statement.
However, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson took to Facebook to attack Labour politicians for "political game playing", defending his record regarding the fire service as mayor of London between 2008-2016.
"That's one of the most awful things I have ever seen", William said of the tower's blackened shell.
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